Zack Edds

Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I build things with machine learning, ship software, and chase hard problems.

Previously at Apple, Argonne National Laboratory, and LanzaJet. I'm heading back to Apple this summer.

Resume Projects

What I've been working on

Fine-tuned a 2B model with QLoRA on Apple Silicon to generate bash commands from natural language. 59% to 91% accuracy, trained in 28 minutes.

SWE intern on iOS Books & Notes. Led testing for the iOS 26 redesign, filed 28 P1 bugs, and prototyped an AI pipeline for on-device bug verification.

Computer vision research under Professor Saurabh Gupta at UIUC. 3D hand reconstruction, IMU integration, and robotic policy training.

Apple Interns

US Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory

2+ years at LanzaJet

University of Illinois 5k

UIUC CS study group

Fixing go karts and motorcycles